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Your health

What are oncomarkers?

Recently, an increasing number of people are turning to laboratories in order to pass tests for cancer markers. Why do we need such tests? How complete information do they give? And what exactly are cancer markers?

30.09.2015
Prolonging youth

Geroprotectors: the most complete database (2)

Motivation to create a database Geroprotectors.org there was a desire to provide researchers interested in aging-slowing compounds with a universal resource that allows them to save a huge amount of time searching for data, studying literature and expert analysis.

29.09.2015
Prolonging youth

Geroprotectors: the most complete database (1)

Geroprotectors is an easy-to-use public database containing information on more than 250 experiments in which more than 200 confirmed or potential geroprotectors were studied.

29.09.2015
Various

Sex with robots is prohibited

The creators of the humanoid robot Pepper have banned android users from using it for sex, creating erotic applications for it and reprogramming it in order to use it for flirting.

29.09.2015
Grants and competitions

Moscow Government – young scientists

According to the decision of the Moscow government, according to the results of the competition for the prizes of the Moscow Government, 31 prizes of 1 million rubles will be awarded to young scientists in 2015.

29.09.2015
Cellular technologies

Cell sorter the size of a mobile phone

Based on acoustic waves, the sorter, which is a small and inexpensive device of the "laboratory on a chip" type, is able to compete with traditional devices using fluorescent labels.

28.09.2015
Cellular technologies

Hydrogel will help in the treatment of heart attack

A sticky, protein-rich hydrogel developed by Johns Hopkins University researchers delays stem cells in the infarction zone and supports their vital activity, providing more effective damage recovery.

28.09.2015
Your health

A long lazy life

Do you think that you have to expose your body to daily physical exertion in order to keep your youth longer? Do you hope that daily jogging will save you from a heart attack? Numerous modern studies dispute this point of view.

28.09.2015
Various

Let's say "no" to ageism!

For the first time at the III National Conference "Society for All Ages", a session on ageism will be held, at which domestic and foreign experts will try to develop recommendations for overcoming it.

28.09.2015
Genetic engineering

New scissors for genetic engineering

Cpf1 works like CRISPR-Cas9, which is currently used in experiments to change the human genome, but it has a number of advantages.

28.09.2015
Genetics

Mutating humanity

In the 15 years that have passed since the first rough reading of the human genome, our knowledge of mutations that occur in our genes has increased many times, and the methods of studying them have become much more effective and diverse.

28.09.2015
Other life sciences

When viruses were big…

American biologists have shown that viruses are not lifeless random fragments of DNA that have become "alive" by chance, but the product of the evolution of ancient cell-like structures that have adapted to intracellular parasitism.

28.09.2015
Other life sciences

Telepathy via computer

American scientists were able to make two people read each other's thoughts at a distance. The participants of the experiment successfully played a question-and-answer game: one of them asked a series of questions, and then guessed exactly which object the second one was thinking about

25.09.2015
Other life sciences

Paralyzed patient learned to walk without an exoskeleton

The man, whose both legs were completely paralyzed, learned to walk on his own again. According to the authors of the study, this is the first time in history when a patient regained the ability to move without using robotic exoskeletons.

25.09.2015
Exhibitions and conferences

Patenting for biotechnologists and chemists

Within the framework of the seminars, issues of intellectual property legislation, features of patenting objects of biotechnologies, organic and inorganic chemistry and much more will be considered.

25.09.2015
Grants and competitions

Winter School “Brains, genes, drugs and languages: crossroads in science“

Young specialists (citizens of Russia, Ukraine) under the age of 35 from such fields as genetics, molecular and cellular biology, physiology, biomedicine, neuroscience, computational linguistics, chemistry, biophysics, nanotechnology, pharmacology are invited to participate in the work of the University of Helsinki School.

25.09.2015
Innovative Russia

New medical application of laser

A strontium vapor laser, invented by scientists at Tomsk State University, can be used for cutting and drilling living bone.

25.09.2015